Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...success of the Gurney for Senate campaign depends in large measure upon 'early' financing. Please send us your maximum contribution, today!" This appeal in a 1967 flyer put out for Congressman Edward John Gurney helped him to that success, for he won election in 1968 as the first Republican Senator from Florida since Reconstruction days. But early and maximum fund raising also became a way of life for Gurney's political associates. Three have already served time for crimes arising from the practice, and it finally landed Gurney himself, along with another set of cronies...
Protocol Problems. The Finnish government has been bending every effort to make sure that the conference will be remembered as a grand success. It has employed as many as 3,500 workers since mid-July to make ready for the huge meeting. The white-marble Finlandia House in downtown Helsinki has been equipped with special conference tables and translating equipment. The government planned to requisition at least 2,500 of the city's 4,000 hotel rooms (thereby creating a problem for 1,500 doctors who are due this week for an international conference on blood transfusion). Police leaves...
Frederic Hunter has never taken a course in playwriting. The first full-length play he ever wrote was about two people living in a museum. It was produced at UCLA and enjoyed moderate success. In 1968, when he completed, after several years, the manuscript of the second play he ever wrote, The Hemingway Play, he locked it away in a private drawer. Writing is a slow, careful process for Hunter. Even if he had actively sought one, a production would have been difficult to arrange. He was, after all, a young free-lance writer without theater connections, about to leave...
...parents who did their best to bring their children up right, and as a result their children will never be satisfactory adults. Each sketch ends with a total breakdown in communication. The child leaves, and the parents are left stunned, offering up "a silent prayer" for their child's "success...
...could relate the success syndrome to my own life. I have been driven by it too. I began thinking of my own life. I began thinking of the chorus days of my life when I belonged to a group of people who had everything in front of them. I'd always wanted to do a musical about dancers, and so it began to ferment in my mind...